5/06/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : Colbert 2006 Commencement Address - Colbert brings The Word of the Day to the newly graduated. #
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5/06/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Animator's apprentice - Cute animation (via Populicious)
Rod Begbie : Animator vs. Animation - Flash objects fight back. [via] #
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5/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Jouissif - Un excellent doublage :) [via] #
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5/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 17-car sorta-pileup on the 101 (and I was in it!) - 17-car sorta-pileup on the 101 (and I was in it!): ouch!
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5/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Wikia - Wikia: "Welcome to Wikia, a collection of communities with websites that you can edit. You can start a new Wikia in any language today, or explore, browse, and edit an existing one from the list below."
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5/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Linkorama : Byoms: IM Search - I've been playing with this, it's really useful, a handy bot in AIM
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5/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Nice interview with 37signals' Jason Fried by Khoi Vinh - Nice interview with 37signals' Jason Fried by Khoi Vinh.
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5/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jcgregorio : subprocess and non-blocking IO (again) - use os.read(sys.stdin.fileno(), size) for non-blocking operations.
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5/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Images from a very creative advertising campaign from Amnesty International highlighting scenes of war and torture from around the world - Images from a very creative advertising campaign from Amnesty International highlighting scenes of war and torture from around the world. (via plugimi and m. migurski) [via]
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5/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Reward for the Hereditary Elite . . . - "Repealing the estate tax is like erecting protectionist barriers around the hereditary elite. It is anti-meritocratic and unfair -- and antithetical to this nation's best traditions."
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5/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack - Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod [via]
jimray : ldopa.net » archive » cory doctorow visits a radio shack - "I certainly hope that doorbell isn’t keeping private records of who enters and exits the store." Oh dear god it's brilliant
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5/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Business Week holds a competition to design their new design magazine and Michael Bierut says to hell with this kind of spec work - Business Week holds a competition to design their new design magazine and Michael Bierut says to hell with this kind of spec work. I love Andy Rutledge's analogy.
Paul Hammond : Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation? - Innovation: it's all about breaking the rules!
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5/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Art and genocide...why doesn't Soviet and Communist Chinese propaganda imagery offend us like Nazi propaganda does? - Art and genocide...why doesn't Soviet and Communist Chinese propaganda imagery offend us like Nazi propaganda does? The Stalinist and Maoist regimes were responsible for more deaths than the Nazis.
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5/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Zasterisk, Zork on Asterisk - voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games over the phone
deusx : zasterisk - a telephony/text adventure bridge for Asterisk and Infocom games - "Zasterisk implements a Rezrov ZIO object, allowing a user to communicate with a Z-Machine via telephony devices."
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5/06/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Buy MAX Drive Pro (GameCube) In Stock - "MAX Drive Pro is the ultimate solution for the homebrew GameCube programmer."
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5/06/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Buy HDD/Media Player (Nintendo DS) In Stock - "It comes supplied with a massive 4GB hard drive unit"
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5/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Quick interview with me over at leahpeah - Quick interview with me over at leahpeah. "I was never one of those kids who had a ready answer for what they wanted to be when they grew up."
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5/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Linkorama : HP cuts back on telecommuting - Packard wrote: ``To my mind, flextime is the essence of respect for and trust in people. It says that we both appreciate that our people have busy personal lives and that we trust them to devise, with their supervisor and work group, a schedule that is pe
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5/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : ThinkGeek :: Cube World Digital Stick People - Interconnecting, intercommunicating tamagotchis. Very cool. #
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5/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : A list of the 100 best corporate citizens for 2006 from Business Ethics Magazine - A list of the 100 best corporate citizens for 2006 from Business Ethics Magazine. Nike is at #13, Whole Foods at #47. (via rp) [via]
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5/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : The symmetry thesis: "A given person likes you as much as you like him or her" - The symmetry thesis: "A given person likes you as much as you like him or her". Interesting.
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5/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : Wired News: GNU Radio Opens an Unseen World - "Building a general radio that can receive and transmit, and attaching it to a software system that can fill in the gaps of what we normally think of as radio, is kind of like the Enterprise's deflector dish"
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5/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Iconic LA mural of Ed Ruscha by Kent Twitchell painted over by unknown dumbshits - Iconic LA mural of Ed Ruscha by Kent Twitchell painted over by unknown dumbshits. (via eclectic times) [via]
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5/06/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
merlinmann : cory doctorow visits a radio shack - "Hmmph. I certainly hope that doorbell isn’t keeping private records of who enters and exits the store."
Rod Begbie : cory doctorow visits a radio shack - "Is the source code available for this phone? Not that I plan to do anything personally right now with the source, but I’d like to see it. Now, if possible, my good man. Chop chop!" [via] #
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5/06/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Wired looks at memes that haven't taken off, like smart mobs and progress paradox - Wired looks at memes that haven't taken off, like smart mobs and progress paradox.
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5/06/2006 @ 14:09 GMT
deusx : Buy Max Media Launcher (Nintendo DS) In Stock - "MAX Media Launcher for the Nintendo DS and DS Lite is the perfect solution for accessing DS media from any GBA flash storage device"
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5/06/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : myDaVinci takes your photo and pastes your face onto the Mona Lisa - myDaVinci takes your photo and pastes your face onto the Mona Lisa. Not a fan of Leonardo? Try being the Girl with a Pearl Earring or American Gothic. (via ais) [via]
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5/06/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Singlestat.us, Myspace single status monitor - David Weekly's brilliant entry for the Super Happy Dev House money printing competition
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5/06/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Notes on the Pirate Bay Downtime - I love these guys; more humor
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5/06/2006 @ 08:10 GMT
jimray : Cooks.com - Recipe - Peanut Butter Rice Krispy Treats - These are good
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5/06/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : People over 30 should be dead - People over 30 should be dead: "Doesn't it kind of make you want to run through the house with scissors?"
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5/06/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MIT Students Make Boat Out Of Gatorade Bottles - MIT Students Make Boat Out Of Gatorade Bottles: and then row it across the river...
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5/06/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
jimray : The Morning News - Barbaro Responds to Fans, by Greg Ruehlmann - Brilliant. It's a goddamn fucking HORSE! people.
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5/06/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Blair plans state funeral for Thatcher - State funeral for the old bag? NFW! My mum was riled enough by this to write to Tony Blair and complain! #
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5/06/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : BixData | Cluster and Systems Management - Free but not-free tool for system monitoring. Looks like a usable alternative to Nagios. #
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5/06/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : What Happens When There Is No Plan B? - "The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want."
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5/06/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cheat Sheets for the YUI Utilities - Cheat Sheets for the YUI Utilities: "the YUI development team has begun drafting some cheat sheets that give you a one-page dashboard of documentation for each of the library’s components."
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5/06/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
cameron : SanDisk goes after the iPod iPuppets - Crave at CNET.co.uk - SanDisk launches a very direct anti-conformist, anti-ipod advertising campaigh (don't be an iChimp/iPuppet/etc.)
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5/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What's going on with my Gmail cursor? - What's going on with my Gmail cursor?: "About a week ago, my gmail cursor seemed to have developed a vestigal limb..." I was wondering about that too!
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5/06/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
Nelson Minar : Vietnamese spiders - Lots of photos (via Metafilter)
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5/06/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
Jon Hicks : XML-RPC support for Textpattern - Thankyou for the hard work chaps! :D
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5/06/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
Paul Hammond : Content with Style: CSS is Worthless - I only use CSS because I use semantic HTML
deusx : Content with Style: CSS is Worthless - "CSS does not make a site accessible. CSS does not make your site rank higher in search engines. Good CSS does not make you an elite web programmer."
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5/06/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
Paul Hammond : JavaScript::Lint - I’ve wrapped up JSLint into a small command line tool (and Perl lib), JavaScript::Lint
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5/06/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
Paul Hammond : jQuery: JSLint considered harmful (RE: IE fails on $.eval) - Don't change *any* code just for the sake of making JSLint happy
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5/06/2006 @ 00:14 GMT
Paul Hammond : JSLint Backlash - You have to use your knowledge as a programmer to interpret the output and agree / disagree with each point as appropriate
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5/06/2006 @ 00:14 GMT
Paul Hammond : E4X - A native XML datatype for JavaScript - jerakeen.org - I don't have to care about web browser-based JS implementations, so I get to use it, and you don't..
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5/06/2006 @ 00:14 GMT
Paul Hammond : The B-List: Why templating languages aren't a bad idea - Markup is a heck of a lot better at quickly mocking up how something will look than any program you’ll ever write.
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5/06/2006 @ 00:14 GMT
Paul Hammond : Caterina.net: Metrics, registered users and social ecosystems - Make no mistake, user numbers are *always* significant -- but they tell different stories for different services.
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : mnot’s Web log: Caching Web 2.0 - just a synthesis of a few different observations
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : Garrett Dimon / CSS Maintenance Tip: Use a Color Glossary - Not only does this makes it easier to quickly find the color you’re looking for, but it inevitably helps out the poor soul that has to update your code in the future.
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : mnot’s Web log: The State of Browser Caching - I hope these results give Web authors a little bit more confidence in browser caches
jcgregorio : mnot’s Web log: The State of Browser Caching - I need to write this up as a DocType page.
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : Presentation Zen: Obento, Zen gardens, and Presentations - a good meal is much like a good presentation
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : Fakemail is an SMTP gateway replacement to make mail testing easier - a tool for testing applications that works by acting as an intercept for outgoing mails
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : Joshuaink: Yahoo! Tech - I have to wonder if that right hand column isn’t that important, obviously it isn’t else why would it be ‘shunted’, then why is it there in the first place?
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : JSLint from the Command Line - you can run Javascript from the command-line with Spidermonkey
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5/06/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : XTech 2006 - I’m hoping to go to Paris next year.
wearehugh : XTech 2006
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bokardo » 7 More Reasons Why Web Apps Fail - 1. They’re never built.
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Plugin that allows you to define routing requirements that test methods/properties of the request object such as subdomain, domain, port
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : QueryTrace: My First "Official" Rails Plugin - Once you have QueryTrace installed, though, your logs won’t just tell you that you have a problem, they will pinpoint the location of that problem for you.
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Adactio: Journal - Ex-tech - A lot of the subject matter was more techy than I’m used to, but even so, I found a lot to get inspired by
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Vivabit | The Web's Bollocks | JavaScript and Namespaces - I’m not so sure about the huge package name thing.
Isofarro : JavaScript and Namespaces - Dan Webb doesn't like Yahoo! YUI long namespaces. Dustin Diaz and Dean Edwards continue the conversation in the comments. Dean: 'As a rule of thumb, if you need more than three dots to access a method then you have too much namespacing going on.'. Lets no
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : RedHanded » Less method_missing in Markaby - Markaby can validate as you go
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5/06/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Blog Snobbery 101 | ara pehlivanian—Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™ - If you’ve read this and thought “hey, I do some of that†then you’re already well on your way to being a blog snob. Good for you!
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Paul Hammond : JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web
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Paul Hammond : Painfully Obvious » Blog Archive » JavaScript “Associative Arrays†Considered Harmful - complaining that Prototype “breaks†your ability to use Array as a hash is like complaining that Prototype “breaks†your ability to use String as a hash
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5/06/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Miscellaneous Tricks and Tips - a means of using the more efficient function reference arguments with setTimeout/Interval and still supporting browsers that can only handle string arguments, by assigning a custom toString method to the function that is referred to in the argument to set
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Paul Hammond : Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed - After choosing the right algorithm and data structure and refactoring, your next consideration should be minimizing DOM interaction and I/O operations.
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Paul Hammond : cityofsound: Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability - a decent summary to a few years' worth of thinking around this subject
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Paul Hammond : I Will Teach You To Be Rich: 8 stupid frat-boy business ideas - A stupid frat-boy business idea is an idea that sounds attractive on the surface, but ignores the graveyard of failures before it
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Paul Hammond : Encytemedia: Prototype: Inheritance Madness - Prototype’s inheritance scheme can be messy, and it’s certainly hard to read if you don’t spend time trying to really figure out what’s going on
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Paul Hammond : heyblog: Reading user interface libraries - where Google focusses on the problem, Yahoo and (bizarrely) Microsoft focus on the person
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5/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bluish Coder: Associative Arrays and Javascript - The trap of using a basic Object as an associative array is seductive but as you can see it has pitfalls
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Paul Hammond : Web-Graphics » Blog Archive » On modifying prototypes of JavaScript built-ins - You should avoid, if at all possible, extending Array.prototype with new members
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5/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : erik’s weblog » Blog Archive » Object.prototype is verboten - Object.prototype is forbidden and should be treated as sealed / constant / final.
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Paul Hammond : Information Architecture is Information Structure :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net - I am an information architect because I care about the structure of information and building things from that structure
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Paul Hammond : Prototype and Base - The most important change is that I’ve renamed the inherit method to base
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